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theonlybutlet··on Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service
I don't know if it's all in my mind, but Microsoft's targeted advertising in its apps' come across as extremely tacky. Everyone else is probably collecting the same data but it feels less slimey on the surface.
theonlybutlet··on The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit
I can't see how being used as training data has anything to do with this problem. Being able to differentiate between the AI slop and the accurate information is the issue.
theonlybutlet··on 95% of container ships are now going around the Southern Tip of Africa
It's a big area, I believe there's US Navy and UK Navy ships there right now.
theonlybutlet··on Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout
The A320neo is such a comfortable plane to fly on. A380 was great too.
theonlybutlet··on Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them
Yes, if the below perhaps helps. Over my head but...

https://courses.grainger.illinois.edu/ece448/sp2023/slides/l...

From another source:

Backpropagation Through Time (BPTT) is an adaptation of backpropagation used for training recurrent neural networks (RNNs), which are designed to process sequences of data and have internal memory. Because the output at a given time step might depend on inputs from previous time steps, the forward pass involves unfolding the RNN through time, which essentially converts it into a deep feedforward neural network with shared weights across the time steps. The error for each time step is computed, and then BPTT is used to calculate the gradients across the entire unfolded sequence, propagating the error not just backward through the layers but also backward through the time steps. Updates are then made to the network weights in a way that should minimize errors for all time steps. This is computationally more involved than standard backpropagation and has its own challenges such as exploding or vanishing gradients"

theonlybutlet··on Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US
I personally know my attention span will not be 100% driving for 3 hours straight, a short break is necessary and parking, ordering a coffee can take a bit longer than you'd think.
theonlybutlet··on A new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs
It seems that is exactly what they've done just looking at the prop image in the video.
theonlybutlet··on Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US
Hah, if only you've seen me in my ICE car. Plenty of hoping and praying the glimmering fuel light doesn't die out and that I'll make it to the fuel station. No peace mind of mind.
theonlybutlet··on FTSE 100 bosses earn UK average salary in three days, says think tank
FT do a nice overview of the top reasons in the below article:

https://www.ft.com/content/02228292-b88f-11e6-961e-a1acd97f6...

theonlybutlet··on Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them
Thanks for your reply, you raise a very good point, transformer models are a lot more complex. I'd argue conceptually they're the same, just the data and process is more abstracted. Autoencoded data implies using efficient representations, basically semantically abstracted data and opting for measures like back propagation through time.
theonlybutlet··on FTSE 100 bosses earn UK average salary in three days, says think tank
They'll keep depressing down other employees wages to continue increasing their wages at the top to "aTRact THe bESt taLeNt".
theonlybutlet··on Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US
If you read their account, they actually believe they would've made it there without stopping to charge, also they used a fast charging station on the trip which would've charged to 80% in 30 minutes (a much more usual break on a long 3 hour trip). Many people stop for lunch on their way to Kruger, I suspect they did this here. Charging overnight on the slowest plug point in Kruger also delivered up to 210km range, double what they needed per day in Kruger.

It's not really an issue they were just extremely cautious, something you'd expect in South Africa if you know anything about their power grid. I believe the author was actually trying to show it is actually feasible and range is not a concern.

theonlybutlet··on Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them
Yes to both, the "neuron" would basically be a weighted parameter. A parameter is an expression, it's a mathematical representation of a token and it's probabilistic weighting (theyre translated from input or to output token lists entering and exiting the model). Usually tokens are pre-set small groups of character combinations like "if " or "cha" that make up a word/sentence. The recorded path your value takes down the chain of probabilities would be the "neural pathway" within the wider "neural network".

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong or my terminology is wrong.

theonlybutlet··on Britain's got some of Europe's toughest surveillance laws. Now it wants more
A good example is Venezuela, this was a car crash in slow motion. I remember the incremental changes made to law being reported right throughout Hugo Chávez' term in office right from the beginning. He was wildly popular everyone trusted him, many warned of its implications each time a law was proposed and reported. And here we are today, Venezuela is a dictatorship.

As the saying goes, it happens slowly and then all at once.

theonlybutlet··on Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing
Your points are all valid, you've perhaps convinced me to give it a go again. Only thing I'd add is walking for 2 hours in total a day every single day is hardly feasible.
theonlybutlet··on Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing
Thanks for the insight, some food for thought.

I would hope people exercise to a limited extent anyway, to the extent their bodies will try retain a baseline level of muscle-stength needed day to day.

As you've read on my other comment, I lost 20kg over 6 months on a low carb, low sugar, higher protein diet. I started gyming about 4/5 months in and I personally attribute this gyming with a chain-reaction that led to me putting the weight back on and am now in a much worse position health wise, even muscle wise. This all due to practical reasons, such as increased appetite which upset the hard-fought dietary and hunger equilibrium I reached.

Exercising too is I'm sure definitely better but I feel is way more difficult and sets many, on the weightloss journey, up to fail.

theonlybutlet··on Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing
Excellent advice.

I actually lost 20kg over 6 month, roughly following this advice. Not strictly, like I would be more lenient on weekends with carbs & booze, and have sugar, like a small dark chocolate, but only at night (to avoid further craving and consumption the whole day). I avoided the exercise as it made me unbearably hungry.

I recommend this 100%

theonlybutlet··on Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing
This is the type of misdirected advice blessed perpetually-skinny people give perpetually-fat people that doesn't help them.
theonlybutlet··on Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing
Absolutely true but only to an extent. Losing weight has long term health benefits. Despite sustained exercise, if you are overweight you remain at higher risk of things like heart disease. It also makes exercise more difficult decreasing the amount of exercise you'll get over the longer term.
theonlybutlet··on Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing
And more practically speaking the relationship is assymetric. It's significantly more practical to restrict calorie consumption than to burn the equivalent level of calories through exercise (even without considering the impact it has on appetite and on the mind, where you think you deserve to eat more as a result).
theonlybutlet··on Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cuts, possible mergers
The way around this is license it to another platform. No exclusives.
theonlybutlet··on The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
Ofcourse, my comment needs to be read in the context of what I'm responding to, they said input which I disagree with, output maybe there's a slight chance they have a case (depending on how openai has programmed it to output) and even then it's doubtful.
theonlybutlet··on The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
Do all automakers that now develop electric cars owe Tesla something as they cashed in once they saw Tesla's successful copyrighted material l? A model is semantic, it contains the idea which is not copyrightable. Only how it is expressed could be copyrighted (i.e. if it outputs the copyright work verbatim). If this were not the case we would have plenty of monopolies and the world would fall apart.
theonlybutlet··on Threads launches for nearly half a billion more users in Europe
I mean own website on their own domain.
theonlybutlet··on California Pizza Hut operators laying off all delivery drivers
Don't think it's wages that are the issue, it's the relentless need for profit growth. They've basically reached market saturation, so aside from stealing market share from other segments, they'll squeeze clients.
theonlybutlet··on Threads launches for nearly half a billion more users in Europe
Why not just their own website.
theonlybutlet··on Apple's new iPhone security setting keeps thieves out of your digital accounts
I'm unable to factory reset my own iPhone as it's linked to a friend's Apple account. I know the passcode. Apple are unwilling to do this for me unless I show proof of purchase (which I don't have as it was many years ago). Pretty high bar, so assuming must be inside job.
theonlybutlet··on Landlords Are 'Handing Back the Keys' with Offices 23% Empty
Sadly it's gotten to the point where these guys are too big for the bank to be concerned with whether they do something unethical like default.

The bank takes the knock,carries on as if it's business as usual in an effort to prop up their own revenue.

Too big to fail I guess.

theonlybutlet··on Apple introduces spatial video capture on iPhone 15 Pro
Looks impressive in the video on your website.

Is the video passthrough offset to the right/left due to the camera location or are you able to correct that in app (asking due to the open peripheral vision).

theonlybutlet··on The pro-Israel information war
I'd say in Belgium's case the country is sufficiently developed and it's institutions are also sufficiently developed to function without changes. The state can run itself (it's still in control) and there's little need for bold, perhaps controversial government decisions (long term versus short term). In the longer term it could be to their detriment if they are not able to act on changes needed in a future changed version of the world.

I'm not doubting it will be grounded in peace, a stalemate can be a form of that as nothing will happen. A state not only keep residents safe (ideally they should try do this). It becomes a failed state when a state is no longer in control. When other government services like utilities are no longer delivered, that's when the failed state question can also come into being. Lebanon isn't quite there thank goodness but it's not great either.

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